tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post79671650991226258..comments2023-10-24T11:23:31.580-04:00Comments on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: Anti-Palinites Go All In On Epistemic ClosureWilliam A. Jacobsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16433685588536441422noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-90994696361044877102011-06-07T15:17:53.083-04:002011-06-07T15:17:53.083-04:00I wouldn't call Palin "lucky". She h...I wouldn't call Palin "lucky". She had just toured the North Church so she was repeating back what she had just learned. So it was much more accurate than anyone would be if they relied on, say, the Longfellow poem, as most seem to have done. <br /><br />My quibble though is that while generally accurate, she did kind of garble the facts together. George Bush also tended to do the same thing. I never thought he was stupid. I always attributed it to a) nerves being put on the spot and b) past experience being raked over the coals for every misspeak. <br /><br />What a person may know and what might come out of their mouths in an off the cuff moment are not necessarily related. I should know. I am one of those people whose mouth regularly betrays me in spite of my best intentions. <br /><br />Is this a good trait in a politician? It makes me wonder how they get into the line of work in the first place and how they succeed from there. But one doesn't need to be able to talk eloquently in order to govern well, do they? <br /><br />--Peggypeggy38https://www.blogger.com/profile/09658452777430041513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-90418227044787438482011-06-07T13:22:03.401-04:002011-06-07T13:22:03.401-04:00BTW this is pretty clearly ALinskyite maneuvering....BTW this is pretty clearly ALinskyite maneuvering. Hold an opponent up to a standard of perfection that none of the left's candidates or heroes could ever meet, parsing every word and statement in a hostile fashion.<br /><br />Gosh, lefties, you caught a grammatical error. I guess your failed and destructive economic policies have suddenly become correct and we should all vote for President "57 States" and "Profit and earnings ratio" now.<br /><br />Really? Really?Merovignhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12729267115125074569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-33712801727566120062011-06-06T21:39:48.981-04:002011-06-06T21:39:48.981-04:00@viator Thanks for the in depth treatment.
@murie...@viator Thanks for the in depth treatment.<br /><br />@muriel Interesting that you think teaching history is only about saying what is most commonly known about a person or event. Simplicity and stereotyping all at once.<br /><br />Muriel's Thomas Edison is not to be known as a brilliant inventor who overflowed with creativity. <br /><br />http://www.thomasedison.com/Inventions.htm<br /><br />Truth is not a defense. No one is to mention Edison for anything but the invention Muriel knows him for. Narcissistic history lives.T. D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11952394767212085011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-49697917989143525132011-06-06T20:41:31.396-04:002011-06-06T20:41:31.396-04:00Muriel, the trollMuriel, the trollviatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09210255358385745222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-24483015820597005572011-06-06T20:40:11.964-04:002011-06-06T20:40:11.964-04:00Palin - part 3
and bells "Hannah Winthrop, w...Palin - part 3<br /><br /><b>and bells</b> "Hannah Winthrop, who lived near Harvard Yard, remembered that she was awakened by "beat of drum and ringing bell", a few hours before dawn. These were drums and bells that British Regulars themselves had begun to hear with growing concern, as the hurried on their way." Fischer<br /><b>that we were</b><br /><b>going to be free</b> "These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated."<br />Thomas Paine<br /><b>and</b><br /><b>we were going to armed</b> Assembly, Faneuil Hall, Massachusetts Colony, September 12-13, 1768:<br /><br />"Upon a Motion made and seconded, the following vote was passed by a very greta Majority, viz. whereas, by an Act of Parliament, of the first of King William and Queen Mary, it is declared, that the Subjects being Protestants, may have arms for their Defence; It is the Opinion of this town, that the said Declaration is founded in Nature, Reason and sound Policy, and is well adapted for the necessary Defence of the Community. And Forasmuch, as by a good and wholesome Law of this Province, every listed Soldier and other Householder (except Troopers, who by Law are otherwise to be provided) shall always be provided with a well fix'd Firelock, Musket, Accouterments and Ammunition, as in said Law particularly mentioned, to the Satisfaction of the Commission Officers of the Company; and as there is at this Time prevailing Apprehension, in the Minds of many, of an approaching War with France: In order that the Inhabitants of this Town may be prepared in Case of Sudden Danger: voted, that those<br />of the Inhabitants, who may at present be unprovided, be and hereby are requested duly to observe the said Law at this Time."<br />Boston Chronicle, September 19, 1768<br />" 6) As firearms have been manufactured in several parts of this colony, we do recommend the use of such, in preference to any imported. And we do recommend the making of gunlocks, and furniture (ie. gunstocks) and other locks, with other articles in the iron way. 7) We do also ernestly recommend the making of saltpeter, as an article of vast importance to be encouraged, as may be directed hereafter. 8) That gunpowder is also an article of such importancethat every man among us who loves his country must wish the establishment of manufactories for that purpose, and, as there are the ruins of several powder mills, and sundry persons among us who are acquainted with that business, we do heartily recommend its encouragement by repairing one or more of said mills, or erecting others, and renewing said business as soon as possible. Resolutions adopted by Massachusetts Provincal Congress, December 8, 1774<br />In a letter to Lord Dartmouth from General Gage, summer 1774, Gage said" In Worcester (Massachusetts) they keep no terms; openly threatening resistance by arms; have been purchasing arms, preparing them; casting balls; and providing powder." "By (1774) the providence swarmed with thousands of what were called "minute men, i.e. to be ready at a minutes warning with a fortnight's provision and ammunition and arms"<br />The Minute Men, J. Galvin, 1967viatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09210255358385745222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-25256547127142608872011-06-06T20:36:49.619-04:002011-06-06T20:36:49.619-04:00arms "on the night of preceeding the 19th of ...<b>arms</b> "on the night of preceeding the 19th of April instant, a body of the King's troops, under the command of Colonel Smith, were seceretly landed at Cambridge, with an apparent design to take or destroy the military and other stores provided for the defense of this colony, and depositied at Concord" From an account written by Joseph Warren, April 26, 1775, president of the Masachusetts Provincal Congress. Annals of America, v.2, p. 325<br />For many months before Paul Revere made his ride, tension between the Colonists and British Troops had been on the rise, both in the city and in surrounding towns. The Royal Government (the British government in Massachusetts) wanted to ensure that troops would be able to secure the colony in case of rebellion. Orders went out to confiscate weapons that the Colonists had been storing throughout the countryside.<br />Several parties of British troops had been sent up the coast to confiscate ammunition in Salem and parts of what is now New Hampshire. In both of those cases, Paul Revere and other riders who were members of the Sons of Liberty, alerted the townspeople of the movement of British troops well before those troops could reach their destinations. The munitions were successfully hidden and the British troops were humiliated.<br />http://www.oldnorth.com/history/april18.htm<br />British had been confiscating small personal arms in the city of Boston all the while.<br /><b>uh</b><br /><b>by ringing those bells</b> "A townsman remembered that 'repeated gunshots, the beating of drums and the ringing of bells filled the air.'.... Along the North Shore of Massachusetts, church bells began to toll and the heavy beat of drums could be heard for many miles in the night air." from Paul Revere's Ride by David Hackett Fischer<br />In addition to other express riders delivering messages, bells, drums, alarm guns, bonfires and a trumpet were used for rapid communication from town to town, notifying the rebels in dozens of eastern Massachusetts villages that they should muster their militias because the regulars in numbers greater than 500 were leaving Boston, with possible hostile intentions. This system was so effective that people in towns 25 miles (40 km) from Boston were aware of the army's movements while they were still unloading boats in Cambridge. Fischer<br /><b>and</b><br /><b>making sure</b><br /><b>as he's riding his horse</b> "Revere was ordered to dismount.... Suddenly they returned to Revere, and ordered him to mount." Fischer. Revere was mounted, then dismounted for most of the interchange with the Regulars, then remounted. The horse in question was "Brown Beauty, Deacon Larkin's splendid horse had served him nobly that night." who was likely ridden to death by the Regulars after they took it.<br /><b>through town</b> Riding through present-day Somerville, Medford, and Arlington. Before the night was over as many as 40 riders were out sounding the alarm which included bells, drums abd gunshots<br /><b>to send those</b> as riders passed through towns a clamor of drums, gunshots and bells warned citizens<br /><b>warning shots</b> "Trull rose from his bed and took up his musket. Still in his nightdress, he fired three times from his bedroom window. This was a signal previously arranged with the milita commander in the nrighboring town of Dracut" Fischer (or)<br />"He rode directly to the house of Captain Isaac Hall, commander of Medford's minutemen, who instantly triggered the town's alarm system. A Townsman remembered that "repeated gunshots, the beating of drums, and the ringing of bells filled the air." Fischerviatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09210255358385745222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-12567233738297477222011-06-06T20:35:15.758-04:002011-06-06T20:35:15.758-04:00Palin - part 1
“He who warned, uh, the British th...Palin - part 1<br /><br />“He who warned, uh, the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms uh by ringing those bells and making sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free and we were going to be armed.” Palin's words, June 2, 2011<br /><br /><b>He</b> (Paul Revere, Paul de Revoire)<br /><b>who</b><br /><b>warned</b> (Paul) "Revere served for years as the principal rider for Boston's Committee of Safety" Encyclopedia Britannica, v. 10, p.8;<br />"In the year 1773 I was imployed by the Select men of the Town of Boston to carry the Account of the Destruction of the Tea to New-York; and afterwards, 1774, to Carry their dispatches to New-York and Philadelphia for Calling a Congress; and afterwards to Congress, several times. In the Fall of 1774 & Winter of 1775 I was one of upwards of thirty, cheifly mechanics, who formed our selves in to a Committeefor the purpose of watching the Movements of the British Soldiers, and gaining every intelegence of the movements of the Tories. We held our meetings at the Green-Dragon Tavern. We were so carefull that our meetings should be kept Secret; that every time we met, every person swore upon the Bible, that they would not discover any of our transactions, But to Messrs. Hancock, Adams, Doctors Warren, Church, & one or two more." Col. Revere's Letter - A Letter from Col. Paul Revere to the Corresponding<br />Secretary Jeremy Belknap<br /><b>uh</b> <br /><b>the British</b> "I observed a Wood at a Small distance, & made for that. When I got there, out Started Six (British) officers, on Horse back, and orderd me to dismount;-one of them, who appeared to have the command, examined me, where I came from,& what my Name Was? I told him. it was Revere, he asked if it was Paul? I told him yes He asked me if I was an express? I answered in the afirmative. He<br />demanded what time I left Boston? I told him; and added, that their troops had catched aground in passing the River, and that There would be five hundred Americans there in a short time, for I had alarmed the Country all the way up. He imediately rode towards those who stopped us, when all five of them came down upon a full gallop; one of them, whom I afterwards found to be Major Mitchel, of the 5th Regiment, Clapped his pistol to my head, called me by name, & told me he was going to ask me some questions, & if I did not give him true answers, he would blow my brains out. He then asked me similar questions to those above. He then orderd me to mount my Horse, after searching me for arms" Col. Revere's Letter - A Letter from Col. Paul Revere to the Corresponding Secretary Jeremy Belknap<br /><b>that they</b> the British, Paul Revere would not have cried The British are coming! during his famous midnight ride. In those days, colonists were all British. If he uttered anything, it was more likely The Regulars are out! British soldiers were known as Regulars, Redcoats or Lobsterbacks. http://www.thefreedomtrail.org/visitor/old-north-church.html<br /><b>weren't going to be</b><br /><b>taking</b> On April 16, 1775 (Revere) rode to nearby Concord to urge the patriots to move their military stores, which were endangered by pending British troop movements. Encyclopedia Britannica, v. 10, p.8; <br /><b>away</b> British were confiscating colonial arms.<br /><b>our</b> minutemen, whigs, Committee of Safety, Sons of Libertyviatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09210255358385745222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-29965276522817499202011-06-06T20:01:52.331-04:002011-06-06T20:01:52.331-04:00The scary thing is that a professor would find any...The scary thing is that a professor would find anything about Palin's statement accurate. Revere didn't ride through Concord warning the British of anything. In fact he was known for warning the Citizens of Lexington that the British were coming. After being seized by the British, he may have told them about the 500 Americans, but he was never known for this. It's like saying that Edison was known for the Kinetophone. Yes, Edison did invent it, just like Revere may have warned the British about the Americans, but neither considers this their prouder moment. Revere might also have had blue eyes, but had Palin said that Revere was known for having blue eyes, she would have been wrong. <br /><br /><br />Palin never had a lucky guess, or a correct answer, she just didn't know her history. Any Professor that would argue differently needs to read Revere's own account. <br /><br />What saddens me, is that very well-educated people sink to defending her. Why would you ever want to defend her terrible logic and her complete lack of historical knowledge?Murielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16093211600112357343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-79295852245857491652011-06-06T19:00:51.248-04:002011-06-06T19:00:51.248-04:00Interesting that Prof. McConville would think of t...Interesting that Prof. McConville would think of the "lucky" explanation.<br /><br />I've taught at college level in two different cultures for over a decade and done some grilling on master's thesis committees. It is really, really "lucky" for a student to get a short answer question right with an improbable answer without knowing the subject. In fact, I've never seen it. All the correct improbable answers given have been due to knowledge that the common person doesn't have.<br /><br />The scary thing is that this guy is a professor of history and has students whose futures depend on his fairness in judging them. If he doesn't like them, he can grade them down, especially on essay tests, and give poor references in accordance with his "lucky" guess theory of teaching.<br /><br />Sarah Palin has major push back capability. His students do not.T. D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11952394767212085011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-88441368882130643782011-06-06T17:55:34.739-04:002011-06-06T17:55:34.739-04:00Sarah Palin is consistently lucky.
Barack Obama is...Sarah Palin is consistently lucky.<br />Barack Obama is consistently unlucky.Andrew_M_Garlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02855052302054611917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-59873362544470123702011-06-06T16:05:19.032-04:002011-06-06T16:05:19.032-04:00Let's return to reality and review what Palin ...Let's return to reality and review what Palin said, not what others claim she said:<br /><br />"He who warned, uh, the British that THEY WEREN'T GOING TO BE TAKING AWAY OUR ARMS uh by RINGING THOSE BELLS and making sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those WARNING SHOTS and BELLS that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free and we were going to be armed."<br /><br />1) The record does not show, by anyone's account, that Revere told the British, "they weren't going to be taking away our arms." Is that from NRA propaganda?<br /><br />2) Palin clearly states that her account is, " ... AS HE'S RIDING HIS HORSE ... ."<br /><br />Revere did not talk to the British until AFTER his "midnight ride," and after his CAPTURE.<br /><br />3) Palin claims that Revere's warning was communicated by, " ... ringing those bell ... ."<br /><br />Revere's mission was one of secrecy; he wasn't ringing any bells, by anyone's account.<br /><br />4) Palin clearly attributes, "warning shots," to no one else but Revere.<br /><br />Revere's mission was still one of secrecy; he didn't fire ANY warning shots.<br /><br />Palin's account comes from a very wasted education, not from any facts.morrish1801https://www.blogger.com/profile/16495597058377964222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-20615389986325012092011-06-06T14:47:07.818-04:002011-06-06T14:47:07.818-04:00As others have pointed out, responding to a captor...As others have pointed out, responding to a captor's questions after a capture one tried hard to avoid is not at all the same as having *intended* to warn them. Paul Revere rode to warn the colonists. To say that he warned the British, without even noting his primary purpose, is misleading at very best. Let's assume for the sake of argument that she didn't intend to mislead. Let's say she sincerely believed that putting words for the British in Revere's mouth, while letting his primary purpose go unmentioned, would be correctly understood by those listeners in that forum as the nuanced commentary on his actions that you claim it was? That's just as idiotic as total ignorance of Revere's mission would be, and far less likely. There is *no rational way* to consider her actions other than those of a fool. There's only a blinded-by-bias way.Platypushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12600972328387892940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-61211994831038120482011-06-06T14:40:38.514-04:002011-06-06T14:40:38.514-04:00Who care what Kessler - WaPo, that hive of leftist...Who care what Kessler - WaPo, that hive of leftist derangement with a fatal attraction for attempting fixes of Virginia elections says.<br /><br />"He (Revere) also TOLD them (the British) what he had been doing that night, and WARNED that he had alarmed the militia at Lexington, and their lives would be at risk if they lingered near that town. "I shou1d have 500 men there soon," he said, adding, "if I had not known people had been sent out to give information to the country, and time enough to get fifty miles, I would have ventured one shot from you, before I would have suffered you to have stopped me." <br /><br />Paul Revere's Ride, David Hackett Fischerviatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09210255358385745222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-80220450286111073522011-06-06T14:23:50.864-04:002011-06-06T14:23:50.864-04:00So Revere warned the British that they weren't...So Revere warned the British that they weren't going to be taking away our arm by ringing those bells? I am glad we have a Professor at Cornell to help us out with our history.Murielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16093211600112357343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-21257449405398236302011-06-06T14:10:43.618-04:002011-06-06T14:10:43.618-04:00Since you approvingly cited Kessler in a prior pos...Since you approvingly cited Kessler in a prior post, then you should have no problem with his fact-check of Palin on Paul Revere. Her accounts were riddled with inaccuracies.<br /><br />Link.<br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/sarah-palins-midnight-ride-twice-over/2011/06/06/AGIsoJKH_blog.html#pagebreakBird Doghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04921106766204984452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-44013094789821149772011-06-06T13:31:29.045-04:002011-06-06T13:31:29.045-04:00There are plenty of legit criticisms of Sarah Pali...There are plenty of legit criticisms of Sarah Palin; but the fact that her critics seize on something like this shows a lot more about them than her. Specifically, they're deranged.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-75572271098846527392011-06-06T13:11:16.207-04:002011-06-06T13:11:16.207-04:00Yep, Sarah Palin was "lucky" that her st...Yep, Sarah Palin was "lucky" that her statements turned out to be closer to the truth than her detractors originally thought.<br /><br />She was also "lucky" when she said "party like it's 1773". No doubt she's also been lucky in her many statements of domestic and foreign policy where she beat the Obama Administration like a drum.<br /><br />News flash: NOBODY is lucky that often. Sooner or later you have to admit that, if she's right and her critics wrong that consistently, there most be more going on here than luck.<br /><br />And hey... if she really is that lucky, well, couldn't we use a lucky President these days?Daniel in Brooklinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16296850357629131645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-20055256777237950472011-06-06T13:06:03.191-04:002011-06-06T13:06:03.191-04:00@Trochilus
"You betcha she gotcha."
As...@Trochilus<br /><br />"You betcha she gotcha."<br /><br />As they say in the U.K. -- "Class !!!"<br /><br />You and the Professor should turn that into a bumper sticker. Really, I thought some time ago it would be fun if the Professor had his readers come up with bumper stickers and then sell them. The kid who immediately put out the "Osama is dead" (however it was termed) t-shirts made over $100,000 in 24 hours over the internet.<br /><br />Winning!LukeHandCoolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14050153852654024997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-27545358790202305432011-06-06T13:05:35.406-04:002011-06-06T13:05:35.406-04:00The "vagina vote" as a derogatory term? ...The "vagina vote" as a derogatory term? Is that how the blogger would have described Hillary's and Feinstein's & Boxer's voters? Misogyny, thy name is socialist democrat.showbiz111https://www.blogger.com/profile/09244712411680124158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-83872868062494061802011-06-06T12:59:49.771-04:002011-06-06T12:59:49.771-04:00@newton
Yep. You're right about that.
I was ...@newton<br /><br />Yep. You're right about that.<br /><br />I was listening to Dennis Miller while I was driving once. A man called into the show and told Dennis that the left and the right were equally guilty of incivility.<br /><br />Dennis lectured him that it wasn't even close. (Paraphrasing from memory here) Dennis said:<br /><br />"No, I used to be on the left, and now I'm right of center ... and I can tell you from tons of experience that there is much, much, more hatred and incivility coming from the left."<br /><br />After he finished with the caller, Dennis suddenly recalled how he had just the day before received a friendly email from Dan Quayle asking Dennis if they could talk about working together on some charity event or something.<br /><br />Dennis said (paraphrasing again): "See ... I used to skewer Quayle in my act. I probably went after him ruthlessly more than anybody else. But he has no hard feelings about it and treats me kindly. If I had done the same thing to a politician on the left, they would have nothing to do with me"LukeHandCoolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14050153852654024997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-61197798327605071222011-06-06T12:55:10.223-04:002011-06-06T12:55:10.223-04:00Bill,
You have quoted my favorite part of the Bos...Bill,<br /><br />You have quoted my favorite part of <a href="http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/2011_0606you_betcha_she_was_right_experts_back_palins_historical_account/" rel="nofollow">the <b>Boston Herald's</b></a> <em>"Ooooops, looks like Sarah wuz right after all"</em> story, which story I will from now on personally be referring to as the, <b>"You Betcha She Gotcha!</b> story.<br /><br />The part you cited was the delicious little tidbit of haughty sniffing on the part of two of the local academics, Messieurs Leehey and McConville:<br /><br /><em>. . .<br />Patrick Leehey of the Paul Revere House said Revere was probably bluffing his British captors, but reluctantly conceded that it could be construed as Revere warning the British.<br /><br />"I suppose you could say that," Leehey said. "But I don’t know if that’s really what Mrs. Palin was referring to."<br /><br />McConville said he also is not convinced that Palin's remarks reflect scholarship.<br /><br />"I would call her lucky in her comments," McConville said.<br />. . . .</em><br /><br />In <a href="http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2011/06/im-not-potted-plant-im-here-as-blogger.html?showComment=1307287099703#c6190877482158690201" rel="nofollow">a prior post on this subject here</a> at <b>Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion</b> I postulated the following in reaction to a sanctimoniously-tinged comment that had been posted here by Taylor Marsh:<br /><br />I said: <em>"Over the years, experience has taught me that nothing that will drive a leftie nuts faster than pointing out an embarrassing gap in their cultural knowledge base! Nothing!"</em><br /><br />I guess I am left with no choice but to posit an axiom to that postulate, one that all-to-frequently applies in the case of stuffy academics who -- while they may feel obliged to be intellectually honest -- just cannot leave it at that!<br /><br />Sez me: <em>A stuffy academic who gruffly concedes a factual point regarding their cultural knowledge base of expertise to someone they do not like, will often try to take it right back, and usually with an irrational explanation."</em><br /><br />And so, at this time I would like to extend my personal thanks to Messieurs Leehey and McConville for their illustrative remarks, and especially to the latter for saying she was just <b>"lucky."</b><br /><br />This incident really deserves to be memorialized in a political button . . . or perhaps better yet, a bumper sticker!<br /><br /><b>"You Betcha She Gotcha!"</b> would certainly a natural, no?<br /><br />Or how about, more to the point: <br /><br /><b>"I Like Lucky!"</b>Trochilushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07661310034696479920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-60893781224091018072011-06-06T12:43:07.031-04:002011-06-06T12:43:07.031-04:00Whoops! I was wrong. They did mention your blog. ...Whoops! I was wrong. They did mention your blog. I think I'm trying to read too many stories at once. Like a hungry sea mammal with a school of fish cornered ... have to gorge on a good news day like today ... so, got a little sloppy. If you're not going to eat that fish head, could you pass it over here?LukeHandCoolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14050153852654024997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-53500772729283345522011-06-06T12:32:14.317-04:002011-06-06T12:32:14.317-04:00You know Paine I don't care. Palin had just gi...You know Paine I don't care. Palin had just given 17 press conferences in four days, almost unheard of, all impromptu, answering any question asked. She had talked to innumerable people. You trot out your little "word jumble" as if you think you found something important. The only thing that makes it important is that it is yet another example of a character assassination on Governor Palin, a good woman who is right about 95% of the time, has a twenty year history of accomplishment and has been the victim of three years of Alinskyite attacks like yours. How are those attacks working our for you?viatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09210255358385745222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-78982151128425945452011-06-06T12:29:10.473-04:002011-06-06T12:29:10.473-04:00LukeHandCool,
Dan Quayle is another person who wa...LukeHandCool,<br /><br />Dan Quayle is another person who was always wrong, even when he was right.<br /><br />Remember Murphy Brown? Remember how he criticized the glamorization of single parenthood, and how he was taken to the woodshed for it by "the cultural elite"?<br /><br />A few years later, an article in The Atlantic very much vindicated him: <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1993/04/dan-quayle-was-right/7015/" rel="nofollow">Dan Quayle Was Right.</a> <br /><br />It was nice to be proven right, especially after it was too late to redeem his public image.newtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11155544274008241733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-17410221606866547742011-06-06T12:25:30.670-04:002011-06-06T12:25:30.670-04:00Good to see you quoted in the Boston Herald on thi...Good to see you quoted in the Boston Herald on this, Professor.<br /><br />The Herald should've provided a link to your blog.LukeHandCoolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14050153852654024997noreply@blogger.com